About This Report
Corporate Report 2017
The Corporate Report for 2017 encompasses the annual and
sustainability reports, which were brought together for
the first time last year. With it, the ALTANA Group informs
the public, its employees and business partners, as well
as public authorities, nongovernmental organizations, and all
other interested parties about the Group’s development
in economic, ecological, and social respects. In addition to
the Group Management Report and the Consolidated Fi-
nancial Statements (short version), as well as information on
the Group’s corporate governance, this report contains a
description of ALTANA’s understanding of sustainable man-
agement and the progress the Group has made in imple-
menting it in the past fiscal year. As a result, this report for
2017 updates the content that was published in the 2016
Annual Report (published on March 17, 2017). At the same
time, it serves as the annual COP on ALTANA’s implementation
of the principles of the United Nations Global Compact
Initiative.
The Reporting Period
The facts and key performance indicators included in this re-
port are based on different reporting periods.
All financial and human resource information in the
Group Management Report and the Consolidated Financial
Statements refer to the period from January 1 to Decem-
ber 31 of the previous year.
The reporting period for the environmental key perfor-
mance indicators changed. They are based on values that
were collected between October 1, 2016, and September 30,
2017 (previous year: July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016). As in
the previous year, the data on occupational health and safety
refer to the period from January 1 to December 31.
Reporting Principles
In terms of the Group Management Report and the Consol-
idated Financial Statements, the report adheres to the
specifications of the International Financial Reporting Stan-
dards (IFRS) as adopted by the EU and the additional re-
quirements of German commercial law pursuant to section
315 e of the German Commercial Code (HGB). As in the
previous years, this was audited and confirmed by an inde-
pendent auditor. The complete Consolidated Financial
Statements including the Notes to the Consolidated Financial
Statements are available online at www.altana.com/consolidated_
financial_statements_2017.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI
Standards: Comprehensive option. It is also oriented to
the International Integrated Reporting Council’s (IIRC) report-
ing framework. In 2017, ALTANA did not have the key per-
formance indicators based on the standards of the Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI) tested by an independent auditor.
Detailed information is available online at www.altana.com/
sustainability_performance_indicators_2017.
Information on the selection of content based on GRI
Standards and regarding the definition of sustainability is-
sues important for the ALTANA Group and its stakeholders
can be found in the “Sustainability Management” section
(page 7 of this report). A detailed list of all criteria based on the
GRI Standards that ALTANA provides information about is
available online at www.altana.com/gri_content_index_2017.
This report is available in German and English.
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